Transgenic seeds in both India (Bt cotton) and Brazil (glyphosate-resistant soybeans) spread widely and rapidly through farming communities outside the reach of biosafety or bioproperty institutions. Stealth transgenics are saved, cross-bred, repackaged, sold, exchanged and planted in an anarchic agrarian capitalism that defies surveillance and control of firms and states. The outcome is more p...

Indelible marking of pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) would assist in implementation of sterile insect technique-based pest control of this insect. Additionally, genetic manipulation through DNA-mediated genetic transformation also requires a reliable genetic marker. To this end, we injected DNA plasmids encoding the enhanced green fluorescent protein gene into pink bollworm pre-blastod...